<p>I can speak English, Arabic, and French. I am learning Spanish.</p>
<p>My point is, how much does this help? </p>
<p>(Yes, like all of you, I am freaking out about the 15 day wait!).</p>
<p>A good day to all of you ! :)</p>
<p>My impression is that there are quite a lot of people who are bilingual at Yale. There were 3 of us in my freshman suite.</p>
<p>Whether this means Yale particularly favors bilingual people, or that bilingualism is so common amongst Yale people as to be unexceptional, I have no idea.</p>
<p>Good luck anyway!</p>
<p>I would assume that many people at Yale are trilingual. However, languages don't hurt, although I don't think three are exceptionally significant. If everything goes as planned, I hope to be fluent in not only english and spanish, but German, Mandarin, and Russian by the end of my senior year- and also have an extensive background in Latin, Ancient Egyptian, and Ancient Greek- although the latter is unlikely, and realistically, so is Russian. Mostly considering the fact that I have extremely limited resources. It definitely doesn't have anything to do with motivational problems :D</p>
<p>Oops, accidentally deleted the latter part of my message, lol. </p>
<p>Anyway, I think your languages are plenty good enough. Arabic seems like a popular "language of the prestige", Spanish and French are somewhat average (I mean many high schoolers can speak French and Spanish- although, maybe not well...). Also, what SAT subject test scores did you receive in the aforementioned languages, awards, etc? I am not sure if just putting "fluent in three languages" is enough "proof" or qualification. </p>
<p>Well, it sounds like you did well in high school, not a whole lot of people in the United States can speak four languages, even if many people at Yale do :) I wish you the best of luck and I wouldn't be surprised if you make it :)</p>
<p>I would say there is a difference between being fluent in different languages and being bilingual, although of course people disagree.</p>
<p>For example, I am fluent in French, German and Latin (to the extent that you can be in Latin) because I studied those languages in school and lived in France for a while when I was growing up. However, I am bilingual in English and Russian, because these are languages I speak habitually away from school and I am equally comfortable speaking either.</p>
<p>That is the type of bilingualism I was referring to in my post. There are of course many people at Yale who are functionally fluent in more than one language and who have scored well in SAT IIs and APs in those languages.</p>
<p>You are planning to study a lot of languages WannaBYalie. That's very impressive, but be sure you are not sacrificing quality for quantity.</p>
<p>Yeah tl, I agree.</p>
<p>WannabeYalie--I know French and Arabic from my parents, since we are immigrants from a middle eastern country that speaks those two languages.</p>
<p>Spanish, I have taken for four years in school and am now in a college course.</p>
<p>Thanks guys!</p>